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Why C++?
A few weeks ago, I had an opportunity to share a few scenarios where C++ really matters to an internal audience from the field. No demo code or sample projects were reviewed, just the scenarios and...
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Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2
Today, we have released Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2 , a go-live Team Foundation Server 2013 RC and TypeScript 1.0 RC. This update release preview includes several significant feature additions as...
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AVX2 Support in Visual Studio C++ Compiler
AVX2 is yet another extension to the venerable x86 line of processors, doubling the width of its SIMD vector registers to 256 bits, and adding dozens of new instructions . AVX2 shipped with Intel's...
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Shrink my Program Database (PDB) file
Overview PDB's (Program Database file), PDB stands for Program Database , a proprietary file format (developed by Microsoft ) for storing debugging information about a program (or, commonly, binaries...
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A Case of the Twitters
Do you watch the Twitterverse for interesting stuff about C++, development, life, the universe and everything? We do and in today's post share some recent Tweets that crossed our ( @visualc ) path:...
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cppcon registration open!
From cppcon : Registration is now open for CppCon 2014 to be held September 7–12, 2014 at the Meydenbauer Center in Bellevue, Washington, USA. The conference will start with the keynote by Bjarne...
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DirectX 12
For Friday, how about more information about DirectX 12 announced at GDC earlier this week? DirectX 12 introduces the next version of Direct3D, the graphics API at the heart of DirectX. Direct3D is one...
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Linker Enhancements in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 CTP2
For developer scenarios, linking takes the lion's share of the application's build time. From our investigation we know that the Visual C++ linker spends a large fraction of its time in preparing,...
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BUILD 2014 begins tomorrow, no fooling!
** Update 4/2 9am ** Are you watching the keynote live at http://channel9.msdn.com/?wt.mc_id=build_hp? The BUILD conference begins tomorrow. Here are few things you, our loyal Visual C++ blog readers,...
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BUILD 2014, Talks for Thursday
While I am not attending the Build conference myself, I did tune in for the keynote and bits and pieces of other live-streamed talks and look forward to catching many of the sessions over on Channel 9...
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CppCon – The C++ Conference
In 2012 and 2013, Microsoft put on the GoingNative conference which is all about portable C++ on all compilers and platforms. The two GoingNative events were wildly popular and have been two of the...
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DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Update 2
Hello, everyone! My name is Rong Lu, a program manager on the Visual C++ team. Last week at BUILD conference, I gave a talk on “DirectX Graphics Development with Visual Studio 2013 and Update 2” in...
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Tech Days 2014 – April 16 – 17 World Forum Den Haag
Tech Days is the annual Microsoft Conference for software development, software architecture and IT solutions in the Netherlands. The Tech Days conference covers the full spectrum of Microsoft...
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Parallel STL - Democratizing Parallelism in C++
Only a few years ago, writing parallel code in C++ was a domain of the experts. Nowadays, this field is becoming more and more accessible to regular developers thanks to the advances in libraries, such...
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Performance and Diagnostics hub improvements in Update 2
MSDN hosts a number of excellent blogs including the .NET Framework Blog . They are not exclusively .NET: In VS2013 RTM we introduced the Performance and Diagnostics hub with a bunch of tools that help...
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Advanced Developers Conference C++ 4/29 – 4/30
Tarek Madkour and Daniel Griffing join other notable speakers at ADC++ in Munich, Germany this week. Tarek and Daniel each have a couple talks in the two day event agenda : Keynote - Modern C++...
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Visual Studio Graphics Frame Analysis in action!
As mentioned in this blog post a few weeks ago, one of the features we're adding in Visual Studio 2013 Update 2 ( Download Update 2 RC ) is Graphics Frame Analysis. This feature can be useful to help...
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Survey Says…
Survey , survey , survey ! We really want you to fill out our new survey . It is short and focuses on your C++ development experience including Android and iOS. Why? Cross platform mobile device...
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Solution Dependency Viewer extension
Hello, In my previous blog, I introduced PDBProject Extension VS2103 as an alternative way to leverage the IDE features. In this post, I would like to introduce Solution Dependency Viewer Extension as...
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Survey Says...one more bump!
Some developers just like you have already taken one (or both) of our active surveys. Many have opted in for more engagement, agreeing to be contacted for follow-up questions and for a chance to learn...
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